no way out of most companions hate you if you go evil?

[fizzleup]

So I'm doing the typical good path my first run, but kept telling myself I'd go evil the second time around. The thing is, other than Asterion and perhaps Lae'zel, most companions will disapprove of evil acts. Shadowheart approves if you use guilde and trickery, but doesn't like evil acts anymore than the rest.

So should I just accept most of my companions will have low approval if I'm evil? I was actually wondering if Illithid powers would let me influence them as well. As I go through this first run, feels more and more like the game was meant for only 'good' charactes to have a relationship with most of the companions.

Fizzleup

[Seva]

Nope you can change your gender but you can't recruit anyone you want to your party, such is the progressive end times.

[Ad'Nar]

Im doing an evil dark urge drow warlock. It is more difficult. I killed gale off the bat by taking his hand. I killed Karlach with Wyll. Wyll stuck with me until goblin raid and I killed him. Laezel, Shadowheart, Astarion, and eventually Minthara is all I have left. Kind of a shame you can only get Minthara as an evil. Shes well voice acted and written. Anyway Lae'zel and Minthara are easy relationships and Astarion is even easier. Shadowheart is more of a challenge. Especially after the grove massacre.

[Svendson]

The game is not design fo a evil playtrougth for example you can't replace ketheric as an evil character after act 2 .

No specifics quests for evil character, if you save the teiflings and the druids you have more quests an rewards . But if you side with the goblins you have nothing , you can recruit minthara but that all . Dev have other priorities that we are not allow to prononce otherwise we're evil

I don't even know if there is game let you have a real main quest as a evil character and joining the bad guy in the storie from begining to end .

[Ad'Nar]

Originally posted by Svendson:

The game is not design fo a evil playtrougth for example you can't replace ketheric as an evil character after act 2 .

No specifics quests for evil character, if you save the teiflings and the druids you have more quests an rewards . But if you side with the goblins you have nothing , you can recruit minthara but that all . Dev have other priorities that we are not allow to prononce otherwise we're evil

I don't even know if there is game let you have a real main quest as a evil character and joining the bad guy in the storie from begining to end .

Maybe your right, Ill come back to this after i do my evil play through. As of right now, there are many things I had no idea existed and only would have seen on an evil play through.

[Ackranome]

They deserve to die.

[druzilsupreme]

Originally posted by Svendson:

The game is not design fo a evil playtrougth for example you can't replace ketheric as an evil character after act 2 .

No specifics quests for evil character, if you save the teiflings and the druids you have more quests an rewards . But if you side with the goblins you have nothing , you can recruit minthara but that all . Dev have other priorities that we are not allow to prononce otherwise we're evil

I don't even know if there is game let you have a real main quest as a evil character and joining the bad guy in the storie from begining to end .

Tyranny did it well

[OnlyOffensive]

shadowheart and gale mostly ok with evil. Gale is very pragmatic. Only Wyll and Karlach who are bothered by it, but you should dispose of them anyway.

[phlegmo]

Personally rolling "evil" dark urge path on my 2nd run and not having Gale, Wyll, Karlach and Halsin around is refreshing (did their quests on my first run anyway so they would just be a distraction), and Minthara is alright I guess, nice "bonus".

Trying paladin, warlock and a thief this time around and the game feels a lot less challenging on tactician. Mostly because I know what's coming I guess.

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by Cyrus:

Nope you can change your gender but you can't recruit anyone you want to your party, such is the progressive end times.

it just galls you don't it. go ahead, gnash your teeth harder.

[FoxFox]

Evil playthrough is really something that is meant as a challenge mode for a second playthrough (just like, or combined with Dark Urge). Most players will not do evil playthrough at all, so naturally the game is mostly designed around a good playthrough.

[Seva]

Originally posted by Ichthyic:

Originally posted by Cyrus:

Nope you can change your gender but you can't recruit anyone you want to your party, such is the progressive end times.

it just galls you don't it. go ahead, gnash your teeth harder.

Knew the truth would trigger someone like you.

[ItsMalevolent]

You have some moments you can be evil but the game itself doesn't really reward evil playthroughs. I did my first as more of a chaotic neutral and definitely saw moments where being evil for no reason would have given me way worse rewards (which goes against the Chaotic playstyle). I think the removal of the alignment system by WOTC played a large role in how Larian chose to write the narrative.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by Svendson:

The game is not design fo a evil playtrougth for example you can't replace ketheric as an evil character after act 2

The only origin character that is customisable is literally a child of the god of murder, compelled to perform acts of unspeakable cruelty on a regular basis throughout the game.
So yes, the game is absolutely designed for an evil playthrough.

Originally posted by druzilsupreme:

Tyranny did it well

Tyranny is a great game... but for a game that is supposedly about playing a villain, it doesn't really have any of that. None of my Tyranny characters were any more "evil" than any other RPG protagonists. They were just ordinary decent guys who happened to have been working for a tyrant.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

You still get:
Astarion 'gimme the power, give it to meee!'
Shadowhart 'dark is good for you, don't resist it'
Lae'zel 'your kind is only fit to become slaves'

... and Drow Sexy Lady - what more do you need for a dark run?

[Ad'Nar]

Originally posted by chrsschb:

You have some moments you can be evil but the game itself doesn't really reward evil playthroughs. I did my first as more of a chaotic neutral and definitely saw moments where being evil for no reason would have given me way worse rewards (which goes against the Chaotic playstyle). I think the removal of the alignment system by WOTC played a large role in how Larian chose to write the narrative.

Reading the evil necro book gives a good bonus. Allowing myself to be tortured by the guy in the goblin camp gave a good bonus. Minthara, I also consider her to be a nice bonus. To be real, not having gale around has saved me tons in magical items. Im sure the god of murder will also reward me later. There are probably a lot more of these things to come. Im only just past the grove.